A recipe with few but excellent ingredients and all the flavor of Istria.
This month, Paulo Sverko, Chef of the Fancita Restaurant in Vrsar (Croatia) proposes a recipe from his own tradition, revisited for Loison with the late Ciaculli mandarin (Presidio of Slow Food): Breaded Sardines with Loison Panettone.
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The recipe
For this dish you can read the instructions below or follow the video-recipe where the chef explains how to make it.
- Ingredients
- 4 servings
- 8 sardines
- 1 egg
- 100 g of flour
- Loison panettone powder with late Ciaculli mandarin
- 2 medium potatoes
- 100 g of green radicchio and spinach leaves
- 1 red onion
- Extra virgin olive oil, apple vinegar, salt and pepper to dress the salad
Directions
Clean the sardines, removing the head, entrails and bone.
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Boil the potato and when ready, peel and cut into chunks. Prepare a salad with radicchio, spinach, potato and red onion, dress with oil, salt, pepper and wine vinegar.
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Prepare the breadcrumbs with flour, egg and Mandarin panettone powder.
Dip the sardines first in the flour, then in the beaten egg and finally in the Mandarin-flavored panettone powder.
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Bring the oil to a temperature of around 180°C and fry.
Plating
Serve the sardines piping hot, seasoned with a few drops of lemon and a pinch of salt, and the salad.
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I klitu!